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Following outcry from many Nigerians on the social media, NCC has suspended action in the issue.

Nigeria has saved $15.4bn as a result of the elimination of subsidy on petroleum products since May this year, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said. He disclosed this while hosting members of the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) at the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday. The lawmakers were at the ministry as part of their oversight functions.

Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday presented the 2017 budget proposal of N813 billion to the House of Assembly, assuring that the budget would be judiciously implemented to continue the infrastructural renewal and the enhancement of Lagos as one of the foremost tourism and investment destination in Africa. Ambode, who tagged the budget “The Golden Jubilee Budget” as it coincides with the State’s 50th Anniversary, said it would focus on physical infrastructure, while social sectors especially health, education, youth and social development would get adequate attention. His words:

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said that a 50 kg bag of Nigeria rice is now selling in Ebonyi for N8,000. This was disclosed in Bayelsa State by the Acting Director, Corporate Communication, CBN, Mr Isaac Okoroafor.

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) approved a new “floor plan”, or minimum pricing, for data services by mobile operators “to address market distortions, unhealthy price wars and value erosion that could threaten the going concern of service providers”, this is according to an internal working document. In a letter to the big operators, the NCC had directed that the floor plan for data should be 0.90k/MB effective December 1, 2016 “pending the finalisation of the study on the determination of cost-based pricing for retail broadband and data services in Nigeria”.

What could have made the tough-talking Governor Nyesom Wike doze off at such a crowded, noisy campaign venue? I guess it's a case of  body no be firewood .

Businessman/CEO of Capital Oil, Ifeanyi Ubah, had earlier said some youths'll be going to London as part of his football developmental program in Nigeria, as it will offer his team the opportunity to tap from the best League in the world on how best to advance football sector in Nigeria. He has kept to his words. Beneficiaries were pictured at MMI Airport, Lagos heading to London.

A suspected fraudster, Ekperebuike Akadonye, has been arrested by the police for allegedly parading himself as the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on the Internet. The 29yrs old man, who was apprehended by the Inspector-General Special Intelligence Response Team, also allegedly defrauded a Saudi Arabia-based doctor, identified as Hassan Alkahallaf, to the tune of $10,000.

A federal high court in Calabar yesterday sentenced 16 persons to life imprisonment for adulterating about 100 tons of petroleum product suspected to be Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel. The suspects were arrested on July 7, 2016 by operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps along the Brass River in Bayelsa while heading towards the sea on a vessel. The names of the 16 convicts are:

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said on Tuesday that EFCC had no exclusive rights to investigations, including matters relating to financial crimes. He also said his office received full briefing and gave backing to the arrest of some judges by the Department of State Services over allegations of corruption last month.

One man who takes education seriously in Nigeria is Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola. He goes for the best his state can afford when it comes to conducive learning for students. The governor was in Ede for the commissioning of the newly completed 3000 capacity Adventist Government High School built by his government. 

Tiwa and her son,Jamil were spotted at an event yesterday, with the singer wearing a design from Senegal.

OAP Toke Makinwa took to her page to appreciate D'banj after he redeemed a N1m pledge he made in support of her recently released book. Read how she captured it below:

The EFCC has docked one Okwara Victory before Justice I.B Gafai of the Federal High Court Awka, Anambra State, for charges bothering on obtaining by false pretense to the tune of $8,674. When the charges were read to the accused, he pleaded not guilty on all counts of the three count charge preferred against him by the EFCC. In view of his plea, the Defense Counsel Barr. Emma Onyibor applied for the bail of his client adding that his client had been on administrative bail granted him by the EFCC, and had not defaulted but reported regularly to the EFCC whenever he was needed.

Femi Fani-Kayode has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to release some political detainees in the country, saying their detention was illegal and barbaric. The former Aviation Minister called on the President to release former NSA Sambo Dasuki, leader of the Indigeous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Warimpa Dudafa and former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed.

Oh dear! A plane carrying 72 people, including a Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia, officials say. Details are unclear but some reports say there are survivors. The chartered plane, flying from Bolivia, was carrying members of the Chapecoense football team.

A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, was at the Abuja office of the EFCC on Monday where he was said to have agreed to testify against Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and his aide, Mr. Abiodun Agbele. A reliable source said, “Senator Obanikoro came to the EFCC office on Monday morning as part of investigations into the N4.7bn. Since he has confessed that he was the one who collected the N4.7bn and distributed it, he is in the best position to testify in court. “The EFCC wants him to testify against Agbele which will also build a strong case against Fayose who currently enjoys immunity. Obanikoro has agreed and will be listed as one of the EFCC witnesses.

The singer who just clocked 40, celebrated with few selected friends in a small bash. 

The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday okayed capital punishment as penalty for kidnappers, if their victims die in captivity. This followed the adoption of a report presented by Mrs Adefunmilayo Tejuosho, Chairman House Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission. Tejuosho presented the report of a Stakeholders meeting on a bill titled: “A Bill for a Law to Provide for the Prohibition of the Act of Kidnapping and for Other Connected Purposes”. NAN reports that the bill was sponsored by Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.

A source Dian Chelsea revealed how a young lady was allegedly used for rituals after visiting a rich guy whose name was given as Mr Emeka Augustine Ozulike in his hotel room. After that encounter this lady kept bleeding even when certified ‘okay’ medically. Read the shocking story...

An official of Diamond Bank Plc, Ademola Oshodi, told a Lagos State High Court on Monday that he managed the bank account of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia domiciled in the bank. Mr. Oshodi told the court that he regularly visited Ofiili-Ajumogobia’s chamber on the premises of the Federal High Court on Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos, to collect huge cash sums for onward deposit into the judge’s account.

The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to amend the 2016 budget by re-assigning N180.8 billion to critical recurrent and capital items. The Senate’s approval followed the presentation of the report of the Committee on Appropriations led by Danjuma Goje on Tuesday.  The year is coming to an end in a few weeks, I guess we should be talking of 2017 budget. 

Three suspected armed robbers were on Monday shot dead by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force during a shootout at the busy UTC Junction in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. One of the hoodlums, who escaped being killed by a special team from Inspector General of Police, said they had planned to attack a plane belonging to a popular airline in the country. It was also learnt that the suspects were forced to stop by the traffic light as they queued behind other vehicles waiting for their turn to get the green light to move. One of the suspects, according to the eyewitness, alighted from the car and opened fire on some policemen at the junction.

A Senior Legislative Assistant with National Assembly, Abubakar Sani Doki, passed on yesterday as he collapsed at the national assembly. Doki, an aide of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yussuf Lasun, was rushed to the national assembly clinic on a wheel chair by his son at about 10:00am on Monday. Sadly, he gave up the ghost an hour later. Doki, a bosom friend of Reps member, Ibrahim Babangida Mahuta, has been sick for sometime but was never hospitalized. The deceased hailed from Bungudu, Zamfara state. He has since been buried according to Muslim rites. RIP!

President Buhari Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed rumours that he and APC leadership are at odds with one of the party's leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, describing such rumours as mischievous. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said the President was highly embarrassed by such "suggestions" and that Buhari was in regular contact with Tinubu before, during and after the Ondo gubernatorial election.

Njideka Akunyili, daughter of former DG of NAFDAC, late Dora Akunyili, has set a new auction record in New York as her artwork, 'Drown', soared to sell for over a million dollars, three times the highest-estimate in Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale.

Ibeshe community who has been plaqued with evil from daredevil occultic group known as Baddo as stepped up to curb the evil act and it didn’t take long before the evil doers were apprehended. Below is a message from the community after their arrest:

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been called "the grandfather of corruption" by lawmakers in Nigeria's lower legislative chamber. At the maiden edition of the Akintola Williams Annual Lecture which held in Lagos on Wednesday, Obasanjo criticized President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly Obasanjo called the National Assembly the "den of corruption"run "by a gang of unarmed robbers.’’

Some want to give girlfriend(s) iPhone by force. Some want to use iPhone by force. Some want to sell iPhone in black market and make money at the expense of another person. Fake lifestyle landing people in big trouble...

Weeks after comedian Basketmouth was attached by armed robbers in his home, the bag guys who did it have been arrested. The Lagos police command has arrested two suspects in connection with the robbery attack. Read official update from the police:

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and his wife, Dolapo are celebrating their 27th wedding anniversary today. Mrs Osinbajo shared a photo of herself, her hubby and their three children, Dami, Kiki, and Fiyin at her birthday party back in July, and wrote: "27 years with my friend. All glory to the Lord. #wedding anniversary"

Leadership of the Ogun State chapter of PDP has announced the suspension of seven of its key members namely Buruji Kashamu, Bayo Dayo, Pegba Otemolu, Semiu Shodipo, Fatai Adeyanju, Segun Seriki, Daisi Akitan, and Bowale Solaja.

A 52-year-old bus conductor, Segun Awogbemi, who allegedly r*ped his landlady, was on Thursday docked at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The accused, who lives in Saidatu Street, Oregun in Ikeja, Lagos, is facing a two-count of conspiracy and r*pe. The prosecutor, Insp. Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the court that the accused and others at large committed the dastardly act on the innocent woman on October 9 at about 9pm inside her residence.

Some militants were suspected to have lost their lives when troops of Operation Delta Safe bombed a militant camp at Okosugbene Creek, along Burutu-Warri River, near Burutu, Delta State, with two fighter jets and about seven gun boats for nearly an hour on Thursday. Reports from the area said soldiers, who struck at about 6.00 am caught the militants unawares.

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar who just turned 70, celebrated with his family. 

APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a man of faith, saying faith has kept him going and waxing strong. In a letter he signed, Tinubu felicitated with Atiku on attaining the age of 70 and urged him to accept that “there is a tide in the affairs of men”. In the letter in which he addressed Atiku as his dear brother, Asiwaju said: 

The Supreme Court has referred the two factional leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi – back to the Court of Appeal for the decision on who has the right to lead the party. The court also ordered a former factional candidate of the party in Ondo State, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, to file a fresh appeal in furtherance of his objection to the decision of the Court of Appeal in favour of Eyitayo Jegede, now the governorship candidate of the PDP.

Suspected cultists have killed a student of the University of Abuja, Onyekachi Azubuko. He was killed behind his parents’ residence off Gado Nasko Way, Kubwa, a satellite town in the FCT. According to Northern City News,  25yrs old Onyekachi was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon shortly after stepping out of the house to meet some friends. His corpse was identified by his brother, Joel, before it was taken to the morgue by the police.

Wednesday was a sad day of reckoning for a group of suspected kidnappers as they were nabbed in Calabar, the Cross Rivers State capital. The kidnappers, who reportedly confessed to have come from Delta and Enugu States, said kidnap ‘business’ was easier for them in Calabar, hence, the need for their relocation into the state.

A 32-year-old man, Obed Fwoms, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stabbing his neighbour, Emeka Ofoke, on his manhood. Fwoms, a resident of Awori in Dopemu, Agege, Lagos, is standing trial on a charge of wounding and similar acts.

The governors of Ogun, Oyo and Osun states on Wednesday night held a closed-door meeting with the former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, at the Government House, Isale-Igbein, Abeokuta. This came after they left the ‘Tributes Day’ held by the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, in honour of the late Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, an Afenifere chieftain, at his Isara-Remo home.

Embattled Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank, has said the attempt to force him out of the party could spell doom for the APC. Frank said this in Abuja, on Thursday, in response to news that the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee of the party on Wednesday upheld the recommendations of a panel set up by the South South Zone of the party. The panel had recommended for Timi Frank's immediate suspension and expulsion from the party for making disparaging comments about the party and its chairman in the media.

A Lagos Magistrate’s court sitting in Ikeja remanded Seun Egbegbe in Kirikiri Prison for the alleged theft of brand new iPhones at Computer Village. Seun was arraigned before Magistrate Y. O. Aje-Afunwa, on one count charge of theft slammed against him by the police. Seun pleaded not guilty.

It is a day of epic 'shading' between Billionaire Jimoh Ibrahim and Femi Fani-Kayode as both wash their dirty laundry in the social media. Jimoh Ibrahim took FFK to the cleaners. 

Black Friday is always the day after thanksgiving and in many countries majority of the retailers open extremely early because they’ve got a sale going on. Am not sure I quite understand what the history is all about (there are so many black Friday happening) but I know am not here for non of those am here for the sale honey and that’s is why you need to be ready for the Black Friday sales because its going to be lit.

As a football fan, You should probably know that Arsene Wenger And Jose Mourinho were enemies right from birth but they shaked each other last week since their entire life. Obama and Trump *****

Popular kid comedienne Little Emmanuella is going places. She has been crowned the Princess of Comedy by Australian Government while Mark Angel was Honoured with a leadership Award. Emmanuel is the youngest recipients of the Afro-Australia Music & Movie Awards (AAMMA). The youngster received the award in Sydney, Australia. She won 2 awards – Best new comedienne & Princess of Comedy